Books: Contemporary Treason

For 20 years the literary reputation of 49-year-old Irish-born Novelist
Elizabeth Bowen has been based on a polished prose style and a special
ability to write about sensitive children and young people in their
first discovery of the compromises and dishonesties in the grown-up
world. Her best-known novels (To the North, The House in Paris, The
Death of the Heart) were so skillfully wrought that literary critics
ranked them with the work of the late Virginia Woolf.